Many U.S. health experts underestimated the coronavirus until it was too late [Los Angeles Times]
A year ago, while Americans were finishing their holiday shopping and finalizing travel plans, doctors in Wuhan, China, were battling a mysterious outbreak of pneumonia with no known cause.
Chinese doctors began to fear they were witnessing the return of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, a coronavirus that emerged in China in late 2002 and spread to 8,000 people worldwide, killing almost 800.
The disease never gained a foothold in the U.S. and disappeared by 2004.
But SARS cast a long shadow that colored how many nations and U.S. scientists reacted to its far more dangerous cousin, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Many US health experts underestimated the coronavirus … until it was too late
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Underestimating the Coronavirus Until It Was Too Late
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